The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Feb 2003
Vol. 10, No. 5 (189)

27 Feb 2003

The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA), Dharamsala, India
LTWA, Dharamsala, India
Self-description: "Conceived of and founded by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) is one of the most important institutions in the world dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Tibetan culture. The foundation stone for the Library's Tibetan style building was laid on 11th June 1970, in the hill station of Dharamsala, north India. Located within the compound of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, the Library serves as a repository for Tibetan artefacts and manuscripts and a centre for language and cultural education. Its holdings include more than 80,000 manuscripts, books and documents, hundreds of thangkas, statues and other artefacts, 6,000 photographs, and other materials. As a centre for the study of Tibetan culture, the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives is firmly dedicated to a threefold vision of preservation, protection and promotion. The Library looks forward into the next century, confident of its role to preserve, and educate others about, a culture threatened with destruction."
Site contents: * Contact Information; * The Libraries; * The Archives; * The Museum; * Centre for Tibetan Studies; * Courses Offered; * Room Rental; * Research and Translation Dept.; * Publications Dept.; * Oral History Dept. ; * Administration.
Other links: Government-in- Exile: (His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies (Parliament), The Kashag (Cabinet), Supreme Justice Commission); Independent Bodies: (Election Commission, Public Service Commission, Office of Auditor General); Special Offices: (Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kashag Secretariat, Parliament Secretariat) Departments of the Ministry: (Dept. of Religion and Culture, Dept. of Home, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Finance, Dept. of Security, Dept. of Information and Int'l Relations, Dept. of Health) Other Offices: (The Planning Council, Sherig Parkhang (Printing), Tibetan Computer Resource Centre) Institutes: (Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts and Culture, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Tibet House - Delhi, Tibetan Children's Villages, Norbulingka Institute, Snow Lion Foundation, Sambhota Schools); Other Resources: (CTA Email Addresses, Outside Links).
[A site in Tibetan, English, Hindi and Chinese. An online database of LTWA's over 60, 000 collections of Tibetan literature is soon to be launched. - ed.]
URL http://www.tibet.net/ltwa/eng/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Bob Gould (bobgould@iprimus.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

26 Feb 2003

Terrorists Strike Again in Karachi
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "The attack on the group of Kashmiri Shias from Gilgit at Karachi on February 22 [2003] is probably in retaliation for what the LEJ [Lashkar-e-Jhangvi] views as their collaboration with the US intelligence and their support to the Shia leaders of southern Iraq who have been collaborating with the US." - b.raman.
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper617.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

26 Feb 2003

Center for Korean Studies Online
School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Self-description: "Welcome to the Center for Korean Studies Online. The Center was established in 1972 at the University of Hawaii for students and faculty with Korea-related teaching and research interests. Now with eighteen faculty members offering courses and conducting research related to Korea in fields such as Asian studies, dance, economics, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, political science, and sociology, the Center is home to the oldest and largest Korean Studies program outside of Korea.
The Center for Korean Studies Online also hosts several important resources for Koreanists and others interested in Korea. We are home to 'Korean History: A Bibliography' [www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm] , which lists thousands of recent English-language publications on Korea. We also have full-text archives of the 'Korean Studies Newsletter' [www.hawaii.edu/korea/Publications/Newsletters/newsletterindex.htm] and links to the journal 'Korean Studies' [www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/ks/] and 'other Korea-related sites' [www.hawaii.edu/korea/links/links.htm]."
[See also 'Korean Short Story Index' (www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/korea/SSIndex/ssmain.htm) to the Korean short story collections in the Korean language held at Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii at Manoa - ed.]
URL http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.hawaii.edu/korea/
Link reported by: Kyungmi Chun (kyungmic@hawaii.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

26 Feb 2003

IBON Foundation, Philippines
IBON Foundation, Inc., Manila, Philippines
Self-description: "IBON is a research-education-information development institution. IBON undertakes the study of socio-economic issues that confront Philippine society and the world today. [...] Since 1978, IBON has fully developed into a multi-center multi-program capacity building institution that provides research, education, publications, information work, and advocacy support. [...]."
Site contents: * About us (IBON Databank and Research Center, IBON Partnership in Education for Development, IBON People's Education Resource Center, IBON Media Program, Institute of Political Economy, International Networking Program, IBON Video, Board of Directors, Regional Offices); * Services (AV Equipment & Video Rental, Databank & Library Services, Bookshop, Financial Statement Analysis, Seminars & Training); * Publications (IBON Books, IPED Books, Journals, Subject Jackets, IBON Briefing Packets, Facts and Figures Complete Sets); * Other Products; * Activities; * Contact Us; * IBON Databank [apparently it is available online, however details of access to the databank are most unclear - ed.]; * News + Features; * Facts + Figures.
URL http://www.ibon.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ibon.org/
Link reported by: Mari M. Santiago (mari@isiswomen.org), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

26 Feb 2003

The 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies (7th ICOPHIL), Jun 2004
International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "The 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies (7th ICOPHIL), 'The Philippines: Changing Landscapes, Humanscapes, and Mindscapes in a Globalizing World', The Netherlands (Leiden-Amsterdam) 16-19 June 2004, Organised by the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden. [...] Proposals for panels and papers should be submitted by 1 October 2003, and be sent to IIAS at iias@let.leidenuniv.nl or by fax: +31 71 527 4162. Proposals will be refereed. Abstracts of approved papers are to be submitted by 1 December 2003. Submission of complete papers to panel organisers by 1 April 2004. - [...] Some panel topics as suggested by the Organizing Board (naturally, other topics are also welcome): Nationalism and culture, Indigenous peoples and ancestral domains, Environmental politics, Migration: new insights, Conflict and conflict resolution, State-society relations, Issues in agrarian change, Urban dynamics, Old and new social movements, Health, illness, and body politics, Gender, class, and ethnicity: connections, Socio-economic mobility, Demography: the population problem revisited, Philippine literature, The media in social life, Philippine studies: a state of the art, ICT and new global Philippine entrepreneurship, Regionalism and federalism, Geopolitical developments in and around the Philippines. [...] - rr."
URL http://www.iias.nl/iias/agenda/icophil/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Rosanne Rutten (rrutten@fmg.uva.nl), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

25 Feb 2003

Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia by George Miller. Work-in-Progress, version 1.1 (18 Feb 2003).
* Purpose: This work attempts to update Herman C. Kemp's 1990 publication, 'Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies on Indonesia' (Leiden, KITLV Press) which is the most comprehensive published guide for Indonesian studies to that point in time. It is hoped that this present work, a part of the Indonesian Studies WWW VL [a sub-section of the Asian Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.], will be a first-stop entry to the increasingly wide range of current research material on Indonesia published [in print and electronically - ed.] since 1990. Readers' comments and suggestions for improvements and addenda to this meta-bibliography are warmly invited.
* Scope: [...] The main source for the material has been the Library of The Australian National University, and the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Works have been limited to those in English, Indonesian and Dutch, though it is hoped to extend the coverage to other languages in due course. [...]
* Compiler and copyright holder: George Miller has worked in the field of Indonesian bibliography and librarianship for many years. He set-up the National Library of Australia's Jakarta office in 1969, was Southeast Asian Librarian at the ANU between 1974 and 1997 and was editor of the monthly email list, 'Recent Indonesian Publications' between 1998 and 2002."
Site contents: Bibliography; Database.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

24 Feb 2003

Research School CNWS Publications
Research School CNWS - School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands
Self-description: "CNWS Publications is a refereed series published by the Research School CNWS. The main objective of the series is to provide a means for publishing academic books, journals and edited volumes in the field of Non-Western studies."
Site contents: Africa; Berenike (Egypt) reports; Board Games Studies; Caucasologica; East Asia; General; Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region; Latin America; Linguistics; Mededelingen van het RMV; Middle East; Oideion - The Performing Arts World-Wide; Sanjiao Wenxian; South Asia; Southeast Asia and Oceania; Studies in Overseas History.
[The site includes details of the most recent publication: Reimar Schefold and Han F. Vermeulen (eds.) Treasure Hunting? Collectors and Collections of Indonesian Artefacts (Leiden 2002) - ed.]
URL http://www.cnwspublications.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.cnwspublications.com
Link reported by: Han F. Vermeulen (vermeulen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic/Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

22 Feb 2003

36th Annual Bengal Studies Conference, Apr 2003
The Academy of Bangla Arts and Culture (ABAC), Irving, TX, USA
Supplied note: "Call for papers: 36th Annual Bengal Studies Conference [...] Dates: April 4-6th, 03. Where: Irving, Texas. Organizers: ABAC http://www.abac-usa.org/ Submission deadline: 28 Feb. 03. Website: [see the URL below].
The Academy of Bangla Arts and Culture have worked very hard to organize what promises to be a rewarding get together of academics and others working in the various fields of Bengal studies and culture. For special information pertaining to panels, etc contact Mr. Jhinuk Chowdhury, (jhinuk@abac-usa.org) - jk."
Site contents: Call for Papers; Registration; Conference Schedule; Travel & Accommodations; Contact Us.
URL http://www.abac-usa.org/bsc/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the conference site was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.abac-usa.org]
Link reported by: Joanna Kirkpatrick (jkirk@spro.net), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Feb 2003

Red-Haired Barbarians: 40 Rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865
International Institute of Social History (IISG), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Supplied note: "Red-Haired Barbarians: 40 Rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865. This is a digital exhibition of a collection of 40 Japanese woodblock prints [from the collection of the Netherlands Economic History Archive (NEHA), which is housed in the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. - ed.] published between 1800 and 1865, depicting Dutch traders in Nagasaki. Now extremely rare, at the time of their publication the prints were sold as souvenirs to Japanese who visited Nagasaki and perhaps hoped to catch a glimpse of these strange 'red-haired barbarians' - mvh."
Site contents: Introduction; The Dutch; Dutch Ships; Animals for the Court; Russians; Foreigners in Yokohama; Other Prints; Books and Links.
[A bi-lingual (EN, NL) site - ed.]
URL http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/japaneseprints/index.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: Marien van der Heijden (mvh@iisg.nl), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Feb 2003

Asia Bookroom
Asia Bookroom, Belconnen, ACT, Australia
Supplied note: "We specialise in out of print, antiquarian & secondhand books on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. See our page on the World Wide Web at [the URL below] Member of the Australia & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers. [...] Currently we issue over 30 email lists mainly in the field of Asian Studies together with a few on the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, one on general antiquarian books and an occasional Australiana list. Shortly we will be adding a list focusing on language and linguistics. Please let us know if you would be interested in receiving this. - bb."
URL http://www.AsiaBookroom.com/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: Barbara Burdon (books@AsiaBookroom.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Feb 2003

East Asia Global Distance Education Network
Open University of Hong Kong, PRC (China)
Supplied note: "The East Asia site of the Global Distance Education Network supported by the World Bank and the Commonwealth of Learning is based at the Centre for Research in Distance & Adult Learning at the Open University of Hong Kong. Guideposts for aspiring distance education practitioners are divided into Teaching & Learning, Technology, Management, and Policy & Programs. Versions in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese are followed by links to research articles in each language - smcc."
URL http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/cridal/gdenet
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ouhk.edu.hk/cridal/gdenet
Link reported by: Steve McCarty (steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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